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Via Kerri Cassidy & CCSVI Australia: So happy to see this new paper from researchers in Australia looking at the incidence and impact of venous narrowing on the brain of people with Multiple Sclerosis. We weren't making this stuff up ten years ago - there's something not right going on in our brains (apart from the obvious!) and we need to understand how to best fix it! The research continues!

An update by Professor Ken Thomson and Dr Helen Kavnoudias on research learning's (abstract) is scheduled during the 2020 meeting of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) from 12-15 September 2020 - * Learning's suggest that improvements in expanded disability status scale (EDSS) occurs only after 24mths. Other potentially related studies were for lesser periods and did not include EDSS related ambulatory improvements as a primary-endpo...int. See also a related 10 year CCSVI clinical overview (April 2020) by Vascular Surgeon Dr Pietro M Bavera (University of Milano) * The Alfred is now looking specifically at the perivascular spaces of the brain, toxic clearance and pressures in the brain * A vascular/endothelial cell component in the pathogenesis of MS warrants further investigation * The Alfred continue to have vascular research in MS on the agenda and the research continues. For now though, as in many areas, they are in a holding pattern until the COVID-19 crisis passes. This update by courtesy of CCSVI Australia. See more

Because the COVID-19 virus is novel, no one has immunity to it. What we can do, however, is make sure our immune systems, microbiome and vascular systems are in fighting form if we do get exposed. Thanks to Joan for compiling the following:

Knowledge is Power!